COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_09247
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Funerary couch base depicting Sogdian musicians, dancers, and Buddhist divinities
View description:
full frontal view
Date:
550-577
Date type:
creation
Repository name:
Freer Gallery of Art
Repository name variant:
Smithsonian Institution. Freer Gallery of Art
Repository location:
Washington, D.C.
Repository_inventory_ number:
F1915.110
Style_Period:
Northern Qi
Style_Period:
Northern Dynasties
Style_Period name variant:
(Southern and Northern Dynasties)
Subject:
couches (reclining furniture)
Subject:
musicians
Subject:
dancers
Subject:
divinity
Subject:
birds (motifs)
Culture:
Chinese (culture or style)
Culture:
Buddhism
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Category:
Sculpture and Installations
Work_type:
funerary art
Work_type:
base (object component)
Material_Technique:
grey marble with traces of pigment
Measurement:
60.3 x 234 x 23.5 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny
Note:
From the NMAA website: "This is the front of a funerary couch, or platform, that supported a coffin. Scholars suggest it was made for Cave 4 at northern Xiangtangshan; it was rare, however, for a Buddhist cave to serve as a burial place. The couch is also unusual for its combination of Persian and Chinese elements."
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Duplication rights - Walter Denny
Filename:
WBD_09247.JPG
